Telegraph and like pole bracket.



H. LENOH. TELEGRAPH AND LIKE POLE BRACKET.

. APPLICATION FILED MAY 1, 1918. 1,121 ,5 1 3.

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' arranged for attachment to lower end and supporting the horizontal dThe free ends t I ATES HARRY LENGH, or nnnoxnna'rn, ENGLAND.

TELEGRAPH AND LIKE POLE BRACKET.

Application filed May 1,

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY LENOH, subject of the King of Great Britain,residing at Hazlemere, Holly Road, Blackheath, in the county of Kent,England, have .invented certain new and useful Improvements in Telegraphand like Pole Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

The invention provides an improved construction of telegraph or likepole bracket for use either as a foot step or an insulator support.

The bracket according to the invention combines a horizontal bar formedpartly by two distanced apart integral side strips arranged parallelwith each other with their faces in the vertical plane, ears or lugsshaped outwardly from 'the metal of the side strips for the attachmentof the horizontal bar to the pole, and an oblique prop the pole at its dand which is pierce out and bent up as an all-in-one piece part of theside strips and lugs to thereby provide a cheaper production and astrong form. of bracket for the reason that there are no separate partsto be riveted or connected to each other.

In carrying bracket is formed either from a of metal or section.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of; the improved bracket. Fig. 2 is across section of Fig. 1 on the dotted lines A B. Fig. 3 is a crosssection of Fig. 1 on the dotted lines C D, but with part. of the propbroken away. Fig. 4 is a plan of blank on a redueed scale, beforebending. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal edge view 0 Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a crosssection of Fig. 4 on the dotted lines E F. 1

The drawings show the bracket for use as a foot step, but it will beunderstood that it may be used for other purposes, e. g as an insulatorsupport. The blank 41 of any suitable thickness, has a central extensionarm at its upper en flat blank a of about one third its width, and islongitudinally cut to form three strips a", (1* a The middle strip a isof a equal to the breadth of the extension, as

' Specification of Letters Patent.

the invention into effect the from a bar of channel cross breadth aboutPatented Dec. 15, 1914.

1913. Serial no. mates. 1

also are the two side strips a a, the cutting providing in the blankthree parallel strips connected to each other and to the extension by anintact portion a of the blank. The middle strip a} is bent downwardlyfrom the termination of the cutting (on the creasing line 0) to form anoblique prop s, Fig. 1, which at its free end for a distance is furtherand independently bent to provide an ear or lug s to be wood screwed ornailed to the pole, this prop providing a sort of compression stay tothe foot step. The prop may have a twist in it at the termination of-thecutting, sothat in plan one of its longitudinal edges is uppermost, withthe faces vertical. The side strips a a are bodily turned down on thecreasing lines d d so as to present the inner longitudinal edge of eachstrip uppermost and form a horizontal bar or tread portion to the footstep, said strips being still parallel with each other and distancedapart. if of the side strips are in ependently bent, on the creasinglines t into ears or lugs to closely fit the circle of the pole forattachment of said end thereto by wood'screws or the like. The centralextension 0. is turned upwardly on the creasing line '0 to provide adefinite end to the horizontal bar or tread portion preventin the footslipping off at this end.

aving now I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent is A bracket ofthe type ing a pair of side strips arranged in para lel vertical planesand a brace intermediate the side strips and extending obliquely andinwardly relatively thereto, the brace at its inner end being integrallyjoined to said strips adjacent the upper edge and the outer end thereof,and having the web of material whereby it is joined to thestrips'disposed "in a plane at right angles to the planes of the strips,strips and the free end of the brace being formed to provide attachmentlugs as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signaset forth compris- Witnesses:

Gno. FmmRY, BERNARD H. Tmonn.

85 described my invention what i the inner ends of the

